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Subject: Re: Junior thoughts

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 10:23:52 07/13/04

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On July 13, 2004 at 05:13:55, Joachim Rang wrote:

>Hi Amir,
>
>congratulations for the title and many thanks for your report and opinions about
>the WCCC. Although I'm a Shredder-Fan I must admit that I am always stunned to
>see with which style and force Junior manages to win. Although it feels like
>your playing style is more unbalanced and less complete than that of Shredder
>(you wrote it feels almost "perfect") I think you have discovered something
>special, which other programs have not. I'm always impressed how Junior operates
>with its major pieces against the enemy king especially in the late
>midgame/beginning endgame. I think Junior knows a lot more how to exploit an
>exposed king when the position is open and queens are still on board than other
>programs do.
>
>Some questions: Does you focus in your work especially on long time controls on
>superfast machines? I ask since Junior 8 seems relatively better on longer time
>controls than on blitz in contrast to Hiarcs 9 for example. Do you think that in
>_evaluation_ there are things that work differently in blitz and in longer time
>controls (for search it is obvious that there is a difference)?
>

I don't know of a reason why things would work out differently at different time
controls.

Amir



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